Brian Hooker’s Alarming Past: GPS Tampering Claim Blows Open New Questions | Lynette Hooker

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Brian Hooker’s past with AT&T is raising new questions in the search for his missing wife, Lynette Hooker. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield digs into new claims about Hooker’s alleged GPS tampering history, his tech background, and whether he may have known far more about phones, Wi-Fi, Starlink, and emergency communications than he initially let on. We also sit down with Blaine Stevenson, a sailor and friend of Brian and Lynette Hooker.

Blaine Stevenson: https://www.youtube.com/@SailingCameo

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Sirius.
0:08.5	Welcome to the Southern Depot.
0:11.1	I'm at my mom's place in Florida.
0:13.5	I'm recording this on Monday, April 27th.
0:15.9	I got a lot to tell you, like so much.
0:19.9	I am still following the Lynette Hooker story. I like to call it Lynette's
0:23.3	story because Lynette is still missing. Brian Hooker has Amscraid from the Bahamas where he said
0:29.1	he would never leave her until he found her. He swears she bounced off the back of his dinghy
0:34.0	in terrible seas, bullshit. But you know, one by one, we're able to tear his story apart.
0:39.4	If you are just coming into this story,
0:40.9	welcome, hi.
0:42.5	Please subscribe, it's nice to have you here.
0:44.3	And then go back through my other episodes
0:46.4	because we have discovered a lot of stuff
0:48.6	that does not add up.
0:50.2	Every single day, we find something new
0:52.3	that basically flies in the face of Brian Hooker's story about how his wife disappeared in the sea of Abaco off of Elbow Key in the Bahamas.
1:00.8	I mean, I couldn't even in an hour list all of things that don't make sense.
1:05.8	But in this coming hour, you are about to hear some things about Brian Hooker.
1:12.2	We're going to go back over some of the things in his story and some ways that we believe
1:16.7	it would be possible, could be possible, to turn his live-a-board yacht called Soulmate into a
1:24.3	ghost ship, which can't be seen, can't be tracked.
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